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Important Concepts

To understand creating PROCs, see the CA Dataquery User Guide for details on creating dialogs. You may also want to see the user instructions for responding to JCL PROCs in the same book. Creation and terminology for PROC creation is the same as for dialog creation. This section provides special information for PROCs only.

Variable

Designate any part of a JCL member a variable. The user submitting the JCL substitutes another value, such as a job name, DSN, or VOLSER, for the variable.

Default

A PROC variable must have a default value that the user can submit without changing the variable. The default variable can be blanks by using all dialog fill characters. Defaults must be acceptable to CA Dataquery without the variable ID.

Commas in JCL

If a JCL variable ends with a comma, the variable must be on the end of the line because a blank is required to indicate the end of the variable.

Save or Update

After you set up your variables in the JCL member, you should save the JCL member if you have not already, or update it if you have saved it previously.